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UMass Amherst is rolling out a new workshop series designed specifically for farm owners, managers and employees. UMass Vegetable Winter School kicks off on Jan. 10, 2017, with two main goals: to provide education that will help farmers with regulatory compliance and to improve efficiency and overall farm management.

Stockbridge School of Agriculture professor Baoshan Xing is being recognized as a UMass Amherst Spotlight Scholar.
When asked to describe his work in a nutshell, Xing sums it up succinctly: clean soil for safe food.
An expert in analyzing the chemical behaviors of soil and soil contaminants, Xing...

Researchers at UMass Amherst Political Economy Research Institute have released updated “Toxic 100” lists of the top corporate air and water polluters in the United States using the most recent data available from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Topping the list of air polluters are Alcoa and Dupont corporations, while Dow Chemical and American Electric Power top the list of water polluters.

The UMass Amherst Libraries invite submissions for the Undergraduate Sustainability Research Award. All currently enrolled undergraduate UMass Amherst students, part- or full-time, are eligible.
For more information and to apply by Feb. 17, visit: http://bit.ly/usra2017.
Papers, theses, design...

The 2017 UMass Garden Calendar is available for purchase, with information about successful gardening during a dry season, as well as special tips for container gardening and extensive lists of suggested drought tolerant annuals and perennials for New England gardens.
The cost is $12, with bulk...

Microbiologist Kristen DeAngelis at UMass Amherst recently was awarded two grants totaling about $2.5 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to advance understanding of the role of soil microbes in feeding carbon into the atmosphere and contributing to global warming.

Four Stockbridge School of Agriculture students, with campus landscape management staff, teamed up this past summer to create a new pollinator garden on campus, part of President Obama’s national effort to offer bees, butterflies, hummingbirds and even bats a nearly year-round source of food, water and shelter. Many pollinator species, which are essential to agricultural sustainability, have suffered population declines and are at risk around the world.Janet Lathrop